Marco Formentini

Marco Formentini (14 April 1930-) was Mayor of Milan from 21 June 1993 to 12 May 1997, succeeding Giampiero Borghini and preceding Gabriele Albertini. He was a Lega Nord member.

Biography
Marco Formentini was born in La Spezia, Italy in 1930, and he served as a watchman for the Italian Partisans during World War II; his opposition to fascism would lead to him refusing to sit next to Italian Social Movement MPs in 1992. After the war's end, he moved with his family to Belgium, and he became a convinced socialist after seeing the poverty of fellow Italian emigrants. He worked as a European officer in Luxembourg and Brussels before returning to Italy in 1958, settling in Milan. He was Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party's Lombardy junta from 1970 to 1975, but he left the region due to its corruption. He worked in the financial sector until he re-entered politics in 1991 as a member of Lega Nord, and he was elected to Parliament in 1992 and as Mayor of Milan in 1993. He was a member of the left wing of the party, and he defected to The Democrats in 1999. He served as an MEP from 1999 to 2004, his last office.